Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 08, 2022

it’d be ironic that the meds is for arthritis

Last night I like to never get my vacuum attachment off! I pulled and tugged for 1/2 hour! (loss of strength due to 11 hand injuries)

Channel Locks work great on opening pickle jar lids for the first time ;-)

adult proof bottles suck!!!!!!!

My pharmacy has been using convertible lids for a couple of years now. Press down on the center of the lid until it clicks into the non child resistant position.

“Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can’t make head or tail of it.”

With my mail-order pharmacy I get to choose and I chose Non-child Proof Caps. When I go to Walmart for my short term prescriptions, I ask them to please flip the cap before stapling the bag closed, if the caps are push and twist. Otherwise I just break the locking thumb- tab off at home.

At least most meds have reversible caps, so you only have to remember which side is which – without your reading glasses!

Many Pluggers don’t read instructions because they’re printed too small to read. :)

the result of the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders

I conquered that by googling it. “Just google it!” is the thing to say and do.

My ex calls them “those @#*%&^ kid-proof lids that only someone under the age of 4 can open.”

That’s why I ask for the adult caps

And how about them airplane meals?

Years ago, I had my pharmacist add a note to my record to NOT use child proof caps. Now, I just pop off the cap with ease!

What is worst is bottles of mouthwash that you have to press in two points on the cap while holding the plastic bottle that is filled to the rim and squirts out when you squeeze it.

Erma Bombeck used to say a five-year-old neighbor opened hers for her.

what’s really awful is, i’m more and more having trouble opening the poptop on a beer can…

The packaging that really irritates me is the OTC bottles (like aspirin) that comes with a foil cover that you have to pierce and push to the side because it won’t peel off. Then having to battle with a half a bale of cotton crammed into the neck of the bottle.

That’s why I keep a pair of pliers up here.